The Yamaguchi-gumi, Japan’s largest crime syndicate, has apparently let bygones be bygones and allowed a rival gang that had splintered from it six years ago back into the fold. According to ...

The Yamaken-gumi provided the manpower while the Ikeda-gumi had the financial resources to prop up the Kobe Yamaguchi-gumi. Meanwhile, the Yamaguchi-gumi has problems of its own.

However, the richest mafia organisation is neither European nor from the Americas. Japan's Yamaguchi Gumi clan is said to be top of the pops when it comes to net worth. The organisation reportedly ...

The world's wealthiest mafia group, Japan's Yamaguchi-gumi yakuza, is undergoing a schism that could spark violent gang wars and have significantly affected businesses in and outside of Japan.

The murder in the city of Amagasaki is just one of more than 100 violent incidents in the last four years that have been linked to a feud between the Yamaguchi-gumi and its splinter gangs.

According to sources familiar with the investigation, police believe the two Japanese suspects and the victim were members of a large yakuza syndicate called Yamaguchi-gumi. Their Thai driver ...

At the Asakusa View Hotel on October 24, 2004, a gang member shot four yakuza from a rival syndicate — two fatally — after a discussion intensified. At the time of the incident, about members of the ...

Now the figure is below 80,000 and falling; the Yamaguchi-gumi gang has laid off 2,000 members a year since 2008. Illegal gambling, prostitution, and racketeering remain their main concerns.

Homeless people in Japan are accepting minimum wages for one of the most undesirable jobs in the industrialized world: ...